Equity Residential - 1792 Exchange

Corporate Bias Rating

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Medium Risk

Summary:

Equity Residential often yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. The company implements race and identity-based policies that replace merit, excellence, and integrity with preferential treatment and outcomes. Equity Residential occasionally embraces corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues at times. This approach fails to safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.

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Corporate Weaponization

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Has canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

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Equity Residential has not publicly canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (1).

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Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

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Equity Residential does not publish charitable giving guidelines (1).

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Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.

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Equity Residential provides unconscious bias training for the whole company (1). Equity Residential does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (2).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

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Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

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Equity Residential’s CEO Mark J. Parrell signed the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion pledge, which includes a commitment to promote DEI through bias education training in the workplace (1)(2). Equity Residential released Gender Transition Guidelines for transgender and nonconforming employees (3).

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Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

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In 2021, Equity Residential donated $31,299 to the Equal Justice Initiative. It also gave $25,000 to the Innovation Network for Communities, which works to help cities achieve carbon neutrality (1)(2). In 2018, Equity Residential donated $25,000 to the Innovation Network for Communities (3)(4).

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Uses corporate political actions and/or financial contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

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N/A

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Equity Residential does not operate a PAC or engage in lobbying at this time (1)(2)(3).

Board Bias

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1792 Exchange has not yet compiled data about the board of directors or political contributions of leadership for this company.